Contour comb



July 24, 1956 s. J. GOLDEN 2,755,808

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di Cf. @aula/1f CNTOUR COMB Samuel l. Golden, Bronx, N. Y. ApplicationApril 14, 1954, Serial No. 423,130

4 Claims. (Cl. 132-126) This invention relates to combs, and the mainobject is the provision of a comb having certain novel and usefulfeatures of construction and operation whereby it aids to maintain thewaves or curls set in the hair after a hairdressers treatment therebyprolonging the benefits of the hairdressing, and whereby it also aids inrestoring the hair or freshening it up, toward reestablishment of thehair set as it was immediately following the hairdressing.

The above broad as well as additional and more spe` cie objects will beclariiied in the following description wherein characters of referencerefer to like-numbered parts in the accompanying drawing. lt is to benoted that the drawing is intended solely for the purpose ofillustration and that it is therefore neither desired nor intended tolimit the invention necessarily to any or all of the exact details ofconstruction shown or described except insofar as they may be deemedessential to the invention.

Referring briefly to the drawing, Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of acomb embodying the features of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the said comb.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. l.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the numeral indicates the body orframe of the comb including the handle 11, both of which may of coursebe of any suitable or desired shape or conguration. Merely forconvenience and clarity in describing the comb, the side 12 willhereinafter be referred to as the front of the frame, and the side 13will be referred to as the rear of the frame.

The frame 10 has a bottom edge 14 which is flat, straight andcontinuous; however, the rear edge of the bottom 14 is provided with abevel 15. The intermediate portion of the frame for a distance of aboutone-third the length of the frame, is provided with straight teeth, 16,except for the outermost teeth 16a which are slightly curved with theirconcave sides towards the straight teeth between them. lf desired, thenext-to-the-outermost teeth might also be curved, but with a smallerdegree of curvature than the teeth 16a, not shown. The front surfaces ofthe teeth 16 are tlush with the front surface 12 of the frame, as shown.

At the ends of the frame, each over approximately one-third the lengthof the frame, oppositely curved groups of teeth 17 are provided,extending downward from the beveled edge and lying in a planeapproximately parallel with the plane of the teeth 16. The lengths ofthe teeth in each group 17 successively inate r"ce

crease in a direction outward toward the end of the frame, so that theoutermost teeth 17a thereof are the longest. The innermost teeth 17b ofthese two groups are substantially of the same length as the teeth 16.lt is to be noted that all of the curved teeth of the comb have theconcave side of the curve facing toward the midpoint of the frame.

A comb constructed as above described is particularly suitable for hairthat has been artificially waved as well as for naturally wavy hair, inthat the curved teeth, especially the end groups 17, tend to bunch thehair and permit easy guiding of the comb along the wave of the hair,whereas the common straight-toothed comb tends to straighten out all thewaves and thus tends to destroy the waves. The shorter straight teeth 16lead the curved teeth 17 as the comb is drawn forward, without goingdeep enough into the hair to tend to straighten out a wave, yet it helpsto rearrange and put in order loose strands of hair. Other andadditional beneficial effects are attained by this comb.

l claim:

l. A comb including a substantially liat frame having a straight bottomedge, a plurality of straight teeth lying in a common plane positionedintermediate the length of the frame extending downward from said bottomedge at right angles thereto, and two groups of curved teeth extendingdownward' from said bottom edge and lying in a common plane spaced fromand approximately parallel with said first-named plane, each of saidgroups being positioned at the ends of the frame and extending overapproximately one-third of the length of the frame, said curved teethhaving the concave sides thereof facing toward the midpoint of theframe.

2. The comb set forth in claim 1, said straight teeth all havingsubstantially the same length, the lengths of said curved teeth in eachof said groups successively increasing in a direction outward toward theends of the frame.

3. The comb set forth in claim l, additionally having curved teeth ofsubstantially the same length as said straight teeth extending downwardfrom said bottom edge in said first-named plane and positioned adjacentthe outermost of said straight teeth, said additional curved teethhaving a degree of curvature less than that of the innermost teeth ofsaid groups of curved teeth.

4. A comb including a frame having a bottom edge, straight teethextending downwardly from said bottom edge intermediate the length ofthe frame, and a group of curved teeth extending downward from saidbottom edge at the ends of said frame, the innermost of said curvedteeth being positioned closely adjacent the outermost of the straightteeth.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 98,844Brown Jan. 18, 1870 722,714 Kahn Mar. 17, 1903 750,238 Bechtold Jan. 19,1904 754,949 Wilcox Mar. 15, 1904 862,133 Carper Aug. 6, 1907 979,471Glines Dec. 27, 1910 1,699,515 Anderson Ian. 22, 1929 1,929,849 NotoOct. 10, 1933 2,348,339 Golden May 9, 1944 FOREIGN PATENTS 188,450Germany Sept. 12, 1907

